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> I wouldn't be surprised if users start naturally gravitating to these pages for the better experience.

If this were true at all, these sites would have lost their mobile traffic. At worst, google could downrank them. This whole AMP thing is a glaringly terrible idea and such an incredible arm-twisting that should be scaring developers away from google.

It's not difficult to see amp for what it is: an evil attempt to turn websites to "web snippet producers" that can only be monetized via google or die. It's web feudalism.



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